Price$19.95
Media TypeTrick
CategoryMentalism
Date AddedOct 06, 2023
THE PAPER CUT
TCC
TCC Presents
(Based on 1 review)
This product is consumable, with each set allowing for 40 performances.
Magicians are never short of ways to present mind reading, such as verbal revelation, drawing duplication, lie detector, or combining it with another element.
Generally speaking, presenting a mind-reading routine with unique effects is often more remarkable to the audience and gets better feedback in the performance than mere verbal or written revelation.
From the creative mind of Elvis Zheng, we present you with an aesthetic visual mentalism effect: The Paper Cut.
The effect can be summed up in one sentence: after the audience "randomly" thinks of a landmark, celebrity, or animal, you can reveal the image of the thought-of object by paper cutting, and the paper-cut art can be given to the audience as a souvenir.
Paper Cutting (also called Jianzhi ?? in Chinese) is a traditional art in China, using scissors or an engraving knife to cut patterns from paper for decoration. Paper-cutting art dates back to the 2nd century CE. It gradually became one of the most popular folk arts in China and then spread worldwide.
Introducing paper-cutting art into magic or mentalism will provide an entertaining and unforgettable experience for your audience. The images are not only aesthetic but also delightful. Your audience will like it.
A year ago, Elvis Zheng shared with us an effect he had been performing for years in his close-up show, initially using a single piece of paper. After one year of continuous experimentation, revision, and development, we evolved it into a seemingly regular notebook. You can carry it around and perform the effect multiple times.
A set of the Paper Cut notebook contains four themes: celebrity, landmark, animal, and birthday wish. Each theme comes with 10 pieces of paper. Therefore, you can perform a total of 40 times with one set of the Paper Cut notebook.
Here is the full performance of the bonus routine:
Detailed online instruction is provided, teaching multiple handlings and routines of the Paper Cut. It offers handlings to let your audience sign on the paper, subtle daily settings from ManHo, and a bonus routine.
Features:
- Revelation through a beautiful and unique art form;
- Easy to do;
- Self-contained in an ordinary-looking notepad;
- The art can be given to the audience as a unique souvenir after the performance;
- Four themes for varied situations;
- Online instructions for multiple handlings and complete bonus routine.
Reviews
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Overview
You have your spectator cut a piece of paper with a list of names and things. You show them what word they cut without looking at it and that is their selection. Let's say they selected the word "panda" by cutting through that word. You then take a provided special pad of paper and rip out one piece and then start cutting little snips of papers. When you are done and open up the paper you will see a panda. It is a very cool effect.What I do not like at all is that they did not credit Ted Annemann for this effect or even the more modern version by Oz Pearlman called 21st Century Phantom (who credits Annemann by the way). This product is docked a half star for that reason.
At $19.95 this is a very good deal for a very good trick.
Effect
As described above, the effect will require you to carry a scissor around with you, but it is worth it. This trick is very cool as stated above and this TCC version is sold with a PAD with preprinted gimmicks to make the magic happen.Method
Well, the method uses the pre-made gimmick, but it requires a one-time additional step that take about 10 minutes. Before each performance you have to do another 5 second set-up and you will be ready to perform.There are some angles to be concerned about, but it is not too bad. The audience cannot hold the notebook that comes with the trick and contains the gimmicks.
Product Quality
The product and gimmicks is very good. There are three outs (a panda, Bruce Lee and the Statue of Liberty. There is also a bonus "Happy Birthday" with a cake, which I don't care for very much. You can perform each out 10 times before needing to buy another pack. The instructional video on vimeo.com is 31 minutes long and it was way too long and slow. I found the instructional video to be somewhat annoying because of the background looping smooth jazz and the slow instruction. The video is shot by a static camera and the instructor appears from the neck down.I also found it to be unprofessional that during the studio demonstration that he messed it up and they didn't bother to edit that out. Not a great look.
They could have and should have included a live demo, but they didn't.
I do like the force provided and they give you a PDF to download so you can just hit print with the list of words.
Ad Copy Integrity
This is what I do not like about the ad copy. It leads the unknowing purchaser into believing that this effect was created by Elvis Zheng and that is absolutely false. If you are going to rip off a magician, don't rip off Annemann! They lose another half a star for this poor crediting!A visual and aesthetic mentalism effect from the creative mind of Elvis Zheng.
This product is consumable, with each set allowing for 40 performances.
Magicians are never short of ways to present mind reading, such as verbal revelation, drawing duplication, lie detector, or combining it with another element.
Generally speaking, presenting a mind-reading routine with unique effects is often more remarkable to the audience and gets better feedback in the performance than mere verbal or written revelation.
From the creative mind of Elvis Zheng, we present you with an aesthetic visual mentalism effect: The Paper Cut.
The effect can be summed up in one sentence: after the audience "randomly" thinks of a landmark, celebrity, or animal, you can reveal the image of the thought-of object by paper cutting, and the paper-cut art can be given to the audience as a souvenir.
Paper Cutting (also called Jianzhi ?? in Chinese) is a traditional art in China, using scissors or an engraving knife to cut patterns from paper for decoration. Paper-cutting art dates back to the 2nd century CE. It gradually became one of the most popular folk arts in China and then spread worldwide.
Introducing paper-cutting art into magic or mentalism will provide an entertaining and unforgettable experience for your audience. The images are not only aesthetic but also delightful. Your audience will like it.
A year ago, Elvis Zheng shared with us an effect he had been performing for years in his close-up show, initially using a single piece of paper. After one year of continuous experimentation, revision, and development, we evolved it into a seemingly regular notebook. You can carry it around and perform the effect multiple times.
A set of the Paper Cut notebook contains four themes: celebrity, landmark, animal, and birthday wish. Each theme comes with 10 pieces of paper. Therefore, you can perform a total of 40 times with one set of the Paper Cut notebook.
Here is the full performance of the bonus routine:
Detailed online instruction is provided, teaching multiple handlings and routines of the Paper Cut. It offers handlings to let your audience sign on the paper, subtle daily settings from ManHo, and a bonus routine.
Features:
Revelation through a beautiful and unique art form;
Easy to do;
Self-contained in an ordinary-looking notepad;
The art can be given to the audience as a unique souvenir after the performance;
Four themes for varied situations;
Online instructions for multiple handlings and complete bonus routine.
Also check out a review video of Paper Cut from Magic Orthodoxy!